Net zero energy hotel in Winooski, VT
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/money/2025/07/03/winooski-vt-construction-hotel-net-zero-leed-certified-parking-garage-workforce-housing/84418222007/
hat tip: https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/19/whats-different-about-a-net-zero-hotel/
A Vision for Implementing the Circular Economy in the Solar and Storage Industry - SEIA report
https://seia.org/research-resources/a-vision-for-implementing-the-circular-economy-in-the-solar-and-storage-industry/
Swiss carbon neutral complex, good to see the "2,000-watt society” pop up again
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/305533/20240610/sustainable-living-swiss-complex-achieves-carbon-neutrality-geothermal-hydro-solar.htm
Swiss net-positive development
https://www.s-ge.com/en/article/news/20234-construction-openly-net-zero-construction-system
Rooftop islanded solar for quick deployment
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-07-28-far-cheaper-way-to-do-rooftop-solar/
hat tip Cory Doctorow
Solar virtual power plants
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/virtual-power-plants/rooftop-solar-industry-trump-budget-law
Gravity energy storage system
https://www.core77.com/posts/137983/ARES-Brilliant-Low-Tech-Energy-Storage-System-Uses-Recycled-Materials-Gravity-and-Rocks
More examples: https://solarray.blogspot.com/2022/07/playing-with-electric-trains-as-climate.html
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/barcelona-is-using-regenerative-braking-to-power-subways-ev-chargers/
Energy Transition and Equity: Quantifying Pathways to Building Decarbonization Based on Notions of Fairness [The answer’s yes]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421525003052?via%3Dihub
https://medium.com/@zoed_46843/decarbonizing-homes-without-leaving-people-behind-5f8a2471900d
hat tip Christoph Reinhart
Framingham MA case study of nation’s first utility-owned geothermal network
https://buildingdecarb.org/resource/case-study-framingham-massachusetts
CoolAnt - passive cooling systems inspired by anthills
https://www.coolant.co/
https://www.core77.com/posts/138186/Architect-Develops-a-Passive-Cooling-System-Inspired-by-Anthills
NB: Termite mounds also have passive cooling and humidity control techniques which can be adapted to human habitation
Climate positive plant in Austria - converting regional forest residues into baseload clean electricity, heat, and carbon removal (CDR), one of more than 30 such plants now operating
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/22/syncraft-builds-new-climate-positive-power-plant-in-wallern-austria/
1765 wooden house produces 345% of the energy it consumes due to 2015 retrofit
https://www.solaragentur.ch/de/solarpreis/schweizer-solarpreis/2016/1-peb-solarpreis-345-peb-sanierung-anliker-3416-affoltern-iebe
